Oral history interview with Harald Anton Enge, 1987 August 6.

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Oral history interview with Harald Anton Enge, 1987 August 6.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83949679

Family background and early education in Bodó, Norway; diploma in engineering from the Technical University in Trondheim, Norway, 1947. University of Bergen, 1948; work with Bjorn Trimpy on spectrometer designs; interest in accelerators; Ph. D. dissertation, Bergen, 1954; the early Norwegian nuclear reactor at Kjeller. Leaves Bergen for MIT, 1955; comments on staff (John Trump, Robert Van de Graaff); comments on students at Bergen and MIT. Re-establishes contact with Bergen in 1963; collaborations between Bergen and MIT (Arnfinn Grane, Eric Casman, Per Hansen, Lee Grodzins); discussion of Enge's apparatus designs; comments on relation among physics, business, and science technology; comments on his textbook on nuclear physics; teaching and self-assessment.

Transcript, 41 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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